• Creek Chronicles: Dark Branch

    What does a champion stream for aquatic macroinvertebrates look like? Those who visit Dark Branch can find out.


  • Meet our new Water Quality Monitoring Manager

    Hello all! My name is Sam Brown (she/her), and I am Nature Forward’s new Water Quality Monitoring Manager.


  • Creek Chronicles: Great Seneca Creek

    Great Seneca Creek yields catches and makes memories for anglers and stream monitors alike in upcounty Montgomery County.


  • Creek Chronicles: Pinehurst Branch

    A group of water quality monitors has been monitoring this stream in Rock Creek Park for three decades–even in the winter.


  • Creek Chronicles: Goshen Branch

    How has the macroinvertebrate population at Goshen Branch fared over the past several years—and what lies ahead in the future?


  • For the Love of Muck and Macroinvertebrates: A Former Camper Returns to Conduct Research on Woodend’s Restored Pond

    By Meg Jarvis I’m Meg Jarvis (they/them), and this past summer I surveyed the aquatic macroinvertebrate populations in Woodend Sanctuary’s recently restored pond. I attend university in Brighton, England, but I grew up just around the corner from Woodend. I went to camp there throughout my childhood and, when I aged out of camp, I…


  • State of the Streams 2024

    Nature Forward’s new report provides a unique snapshot of five natural resources in our region: Accotink Creek, Little Falls Branch, Rock Creek, Seneca Creek, and Sligo Creek.


  • Stream Monitoring Volunteers are Your “Eyes on the Ground”

    October. Fall Monitoring. Three incidents discovered and reported. For nearly 30 years, WQM volunteers have played a crucial role in protecting streams by serving as “eyes on the ground.” They do this by observing, identifying and reporting potential threats.


  • Equipping our Community Scientists to Monitor Streams

    Nature Forward received a grant from the Society for Biodiversity Preservation (SBP) in January 2022 to purchase equipment for use by our volunteers who monitor streams in the Washington, DC Metro region. Our Water Quality Monitoring (WQM) community science program, which has been  running for 30 years, helps fill data gaps in the freshwater stream…


  • Find Older Conservation Blog Posts

    Conservation Blog posts prior to November, 2022 can be found at our old URL: http://conservationblog.anshome.org/. Please visit us there to read more great content on our work!